Dr Stephen Atherton

BA (Hons) Geography & Education, MA, PhD (Aberystwyth), PGCTHE (Aberystwyth), Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Stephen received a 1st class degree BA (Hons) in Geography and Education, and was awarded funding by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for an MA (passed with distinction) and Doctorate (awarded in 2011), all at Aberystwyth University. Stephen was awarded a PGCTHE in 2012 and is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Module Coordinator

• ED30120 - Critically Reflecting and Evaluating Learning and Skills
• AD13820 - Y Dysgwr a'r Amgylchedd Dysgu
• ED21100 - Personal and professional Development in Childhood Studies
• ED33020 - Communicating Science: the Scientists, the Media and the Public
• ED33640 - Major dissertation
• ED14120 - Inclusive Learning Practices
• ED33600 - Major dissertation
• ED21140 - Personal and professional Development in Childhood Studies

Coordinator

• ED21140 - Personal and professional Development in Childhood Studies
• ED30120 - Critically Reflecting and Evaluating Learning and Skills
• ED33640 - Major dissertation
• ED14120 - Inclusive Learning Practices
• AD13820 - Y Dysgwr a'r Amgylchedd Dysgu
• ED33020 - Communicating Science: the Scientists, the Media and the Public
• ED21100 - Personal and professional Development in Childhood Studies
• ED24520 - Policies and Perspectives of Learning Difference and Inclusion
• ED33600 - Major dissertation

Tutor

• ED13820 - The Learner and the Learning Environment
• ED14420 - Partnerships in Principle and Practice
• AD33600 - Traethawd Hir
• ED30120 - Critically Reflecting and Evaluating Learning and Skills
• ED33640 - Major dissertation
• AD33640 - Traethawd Hir
• ED33600 - Major dissertation
• AD30120 - Gwerthuso ac Adlewyrchu ar Sgiliau Dysgu yn Gritigol
• ED30320 - Mathematical Development in the Early Years

Lecturer

• ED14420 - Partnerships in Principle and Practice
• ED14220 - Numeracy and Literacy for All
• ED24520 - Policies and Perspectives of Learning Difference and Inclusion
• ED33640 - Major dissertation
• ED39620 - Specialist Subject Learning and Development Level 6
• ED29620 - Specialist Subject Learning and Development Level 5
• ED33020 - Communicating Science: the Scientists, the Media and the Public
• ED33600 - Major dissertation
• ED30120 - Critically Reflecting and Evaluating Learning and Skills
• ED39020 - Offender Learning
• ED24320 - Safeguarding and Professional Practice

Stephen's research has predominantly been in areas of gender and the military from which he has drawn key educational, geographical and sociological themes. His research has particularly focused on areas such as home and the family, emotions and memory, children's access to education and services, and adult education and training. Throughout these themes Stephen has engaged with a critical analysis of the social construction of gender, with specific emphasis on how masculinities are performed from a cultural repertoire of identities that are temporally and spatially contingent.

Stephens research is now developing into a number of strands, including;

• The productions and performances of gendered identities in young children
• Technology and pedagogy
• Skills development in Higher Education
• Adult Education and training
• Children in Army families.